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The Port and City of Sète-Mediterranean (Port et Ville de Sète-Mediterranée)

A work made of albumen print, from the album "vistas del mar".

The Port and City of Sète-Mediterranean (Port et Ville de Sète-Mediterranée)

Gustave Le Gray · 1857

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Palette

Parchment
37% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.6:1

Graphite
19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.9:1

Smoke
17% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1

Taupe
16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

Mushroom
6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.6:1

Chalk
6% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.2:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist: Gustave Le Gray
French, 1820–1884
Date: 1857
Type: Photograph
Medium: Albumen print, from the album "Vistas del Mar"
Size: Image/paper: 32.1 × 40.3 cm (12 11/16 × 15 7/8 in.); Album page: 50.9 × 64.5 cm (20 1/16 × 25 7/16 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Cities and streets
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 58, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Hugh Edwards Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules